Exports and labour demand
Subtitle: searching for functional structure in multi-output multi-skill technologies
By: by Bertrand Koebel.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1672; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1672
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Labor demand.; Input-output analysis.
Description: "In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them being well known in the literature. This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs and outputs, in terms of restrictions on elasticities of scale and substitution. These conditions are then empirically investigated, in a framework that is flexible and does not lose its flexibility after separability being imposed. The empirical findings of the exact approach to aggregation are found to be rather pessimistic on the possibility to provide a simplified representation"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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